Taxpayers subsidize oil and gas drilling to the tune of $660 billion per year. Meanwhile, weather-related disasters intensified by climate change cost us billions each year to clean up.
It doesn't seem like propping up polluters is the wisest use of taxpayer dollars to me 🤔
The #BuildBackBetter Act is fiscally responsible legislation. There is a cost to not making child care more affordable, not reducing prescription drug prices, not investing in clean energy and green manufacturing, and not cracking down on wealthy tax cheats.
My full statement:
BREAKING: 5 veterans of Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s advisory board resign in a brutal letter telling Sinema she’s “no maverick,” accusing her of being “one of the principal obstacles to progress,” and calling her a “sellout” to “big donors.” RT TO THANK THEM FOR CALLING SINEMA OUT!
A Black nonprofit group in Kentucky has received a 6-figure donation from a white donor who recently inherited family wealth — and then learned their great-grandfather enslaved people.
The donor, who's remaining anonymous, says it's a reparations payment.
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A Big Oil exec told me I had a "misconception" about a special tax break polluters get that other businesses don't.
So, after explaining the deduction to him, I offered to write it out of the tax code if that what he wants. Just let me know!
McDonald’s worker in the US: $9/hr
McDonald’s worker in Denmark: $22/hr, 6 weeks of annual vacation, a union, 1 year of paid family leave, life insurance and pension
Big Mac Cost:
•America: $4.80
•Denmark: $5.15
RT if you would pay $.35 cents more for a stable working class
Captain Sir Tom Moore has been an inspiration - lighting up what has been such a dark year for so many. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends, and with all those who have so sadly lost a loved one due to this terrible virus. RIP Sir Tom, a great British hero.
Each time Henry Aaron rounded the bases, he wasn’t just chasing a record, he was helping us chase a better version of ourselves — melting away the ice of bigotry to show that we can be better as a nation. He was an American hero. God bless, Henry “Hank” Aaron.
Social media is being flooded with conspiratorial raw sewage about our election process -- from the top down, and from prominent people who know better -- but the system is working. The votes are being counted. 🇺🇸
Whatever the final results, it’s hard to overstate how broken our country is when so many millions are ready to give Trump—despite the abject failure and recklessness dealing with the pandemic and his hostility to our democratic process—four more years.